Universal Picks Up TEHRAN

blahhhh -- why cant we see more movies like black hawk down -- thats what i thought i was gonna read when i opened this up

It would be nice if the film referred the the 1953 CIA plot to overthrow a democratic government in Iran by giving power to the brutal Shah of Iran. This rule only led to the irrationally fundamentalist Islamic Revolution of 1979. I also hope the film details how the US responded to a mere hostage crisis by giving Saddam Hussein funds, arms and chemical weapons to use against the Iranian people in an 8-year war. Yet I doubt it will.



I also doubt it will show how the people managed to push for a certain about of liberalization, how a million Iranians took to the streets of Tehran in mourning over 9/11 and how the government helped the US track down Al Qaeda, until American allowed Bush to deliver his unnecessary Axis of Evil speech that frightened Iranians into electing Ahmadinejad. And how the threat of American invasion and bombing has allowed the regime to repress people and motivated it to seek defense perhaps through getting the bomb, since that's the only thing deterring America from invading North Korea. Iran has a right to self-defense, especially given America and Israel's track record of massacre. Whatever the regime's many faults, the West's reaction has only made life worse for Iranians.



What we need is insightful history to educate America, so it doesn't kill even more people, not more simplistic films to encourage even more murder. I'm sick of all this.